new article on the future of peer-review at bible and interpretation

Posted on August 31, 2010 by bobcargill

Bible and Interpretation has published my latest essay entitled, “How and Why Academic Peer-Review is About to Change.” The article looks at how new technologies like blogs, wikis, and Google Docs can improve the peer-review process by allowing for increased review, an improved editing process, and a shorter time to press. Check it out.

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new game ‘the bible online’ puts you in the role of bible characters

Posted on August 31, 2010 by bobcargill

A new game MMO (Massive Multiplayer Online) role playing strategy game is under development that allows players to assume roles of biblical characters, only this game is far from a What Would Jesus Do simulation. In “The Bible Online,” players assume the roles of biblical characters of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament and play out more [...]

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wishing a very happy birthday to jim west

Posted on August 29, 2010 by bobcargill

on this day, august 29, 19XX, jim west was born. little did he know that one day he would be the most widely read, most visible, and most influential blogger about biblical issues that no one admits to reading on earth. ;-) of course, jim isn’t right we disagree about many things: his stance on [...]

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chris rollston on the inventors of the alphabet

Posted on August 28, 2010 by bobcargill

chris rollston has written a solid article on the probable inventors of the alphabet on the asor blog. he concludes: (1) the Muttersprache of the inventors of the alphabet was a Northwest Semitic language, (2) and that the inventors of the alphabet functioned in a reasonably high status role within a component (or components) of [...]

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hilarious: geocities-izer makes any website look like it was created in geocities

Posted on August 26, 2010 by bobcargill

this is classic – literally! remember geocities, that ubiquitous web page hosting solution that gave users a digital box of crayons and animated gifs and allowed them to use them all on the same page? well now you can relive the birth of the internet by going back and transforming your favorite websites into what [...]

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california bill would crack down on e-impersonators

Posted on August 26, 2010 by bobcargill

An article in SF Gate (San Francisco Chronicle online) by Alejandro Martinez-Cabrera highlights California State Bill 1411 (SB-1411). If passed, the bill: would make it unlawful to knowingly and without consent credibly impersonate another person through or on an Internet Web site or by other electronic means with the intent to harm, intimidate, threaten or [...]

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why jim west doesn’t skateboard

Posted on August 20, 2010 by bobcargill

(but if he did, he’d probably walk away too.)

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Lawrence Schiffman, Robert Cargill Interviewed Live on Israel National Radio’s LandMinds Program

Posted on August 18, 2010 by bobcargill

I was interviewed live this morning on Arutz Sheva’s Israel National Radio on the LandMinds program with Barnea (Selavan) and David (Willner). Jim Long sat in for Barnea, who was away. NYU’s Dr. Lawrence Schiffman was interviewed in the first hour (mp3: part 1, part 2), and I was interviewed in the second hour (mp3: [...]

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u.s. news: harvard is the nation’s top school

Posted on August 17, 2010 by bobcargill

Harvard University is the nation’s top school according to the 2011 U.S. News & World Report rankings released today. California once again landed the most schools in the top 50 with 9 schools, with 5 of those in the top 25: 5. Stanford 7. Cal Tech (tied with MIT) 22. UC Berkeley 23. USC (how [...]

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oops. getting into college just got easier, er, i mean harder

Posted on August 16, 2010 by bobcargill

there’s no other way to say it: this sucks. cnn is reporting: A computer glitch mistakenly caused around 2,500 applicants to Middlesex University in the United Kingdom to receive acceptance letters to study at the school in error. i remember how tense of a time it was when i was applying and i cannot begin [...]

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